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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
“Not true. I told him I’d said I thought it was a bad speech for children to have to memorize in school. He also had the impression I’d said it was a dishonest speech. I told him I’d said that 51,112 men were casualties at Gettysburg, and that if someone had to speak at the anniversary of the event, he should simply have come forward and shaken his fist at his audience and then walked off - that is, if the speaker was an absolutely honest man.”
- J.D. Salinger
